A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek solitude in order to work on her next book. However, the unexpected arrival of the publisher's daughter induces complications and a subsequent crime.
Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
Quinn, a neurotic man, is diagnosed with a harmless eye condition and soon after his life spirals out of control. He second-guesses his plans to propose to his longtime girlfriend, Devon, after his beautiful coworker, Kelsey, confesses that she has a crush on him. After a conversation with his best friend, Jameson, he clumsily tries to explain his doubts to Devon, but his possible proposal turns into a break-up. When Devon flees to Paris, he follows her in a last-ditch effort to win back "the one."
Philippe Abrams est directeur de la poste de Salon‐de‐Provence. Il est marié à Julie, dont le caractère dépressif lui rend la vie impossible. Pour lui faire plaisir, Philippe fraude afin d’obtenir une mutation sur la Côte d’Azur. Mais il est démasqué: il sera muté à Bergues, petite ville du Nord. Pour les Abrams, sudistes pleins de préjugés, le Nord c’est l’horreur, une région glacée, peuplée d’êtres rustres, éructant un langage incompréhensible, le «cheutimi». Philippe ira seul. À sa grande surprise, il découvre un endroit charmant, une équipe chaleureuse, des gens accueillants, et se fait un ami: Antoine, le facteur et le carillonneur du village, à la mère possessive et aux amours contrariées. Quand Philippe revient à Salon, Julie refuse de croire qu’il se plait dans le Nord. Elle pense même qu’il lui ment pour la ménager. Pour la satisfaire et se simplifier la vie, Philippe lui fait croire qu’en effet, il vit un enfer à Bergues.
Petit et laid, Ugolin, le dernier des Soubeyran, revient du service militaire. Il retrouve son oncle, le Papet, à qui il dévoile son projet : rester au pays pour cultiver des œillets. Convaincu que l’affaire peut être rentable, le Papet accepte de financer l’entreprise. Il faut donc trouver une terre, ensoleillée bien sûr mais surtout bien arrosée. Celle de Pique‐Bouffigue ferait l’affaire. Le Papet tente, en vain, de convaincre le vieillard irascible de lui céder son bien. Celui‐ci perd la vie dans le bref affrontement qui s’ensuit. À la surprise générale, un héritier se présente, Jean Cadoret, un bossu qu’accompagnent sa femme et sa fille…
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Ugolin a réussi. Les œillets qu’il cultive sont splendides, grâce à la source des Romarins. Mais il est bourrelé de remords. N’a‐t‐il pas tué, voici dix ans, son ami Jean de Florette, pour lui voler sa source ? Manon, la fille du défunt, est devenue une belle et farouche bergère, qui garde des chèvres dans les collines. Ugolin en est amoureux. Mais Manon sait qui a tué son père et repousse violemment son hideux soupirant. Le hasard lui fait découvrir la source des Romarins. Utilisant des pierres, elle en dévie le cours. Dans le village privé d’eau, les langues commencent à se délier. Ugolin et le Papet voient leur crime remonter à la surface…
Chaque fin de semaine et en été le jeune Marcel et sa famille passent leurs vacances dans les collines au-dessus de Marseille. Marcel a hâte de retrouver son «petit frère des collines», Lili des Bellons. Mais le passage par les berges du canal à travers des domaines de châtelains est une véritable aventure, et une angoisse renouvelée pour Augustine, quand Bouzigue offre la possibilité de gagner du temps pour rejoindre par ce raccourci le lieu de leur villégiature. C'est toutefois Isabelle, fille d'un prétendu poète, qui monopolise l'attention du jeune Marcel, et pour laquelle il consent des sacrifices qui inquiètent sa famille et son ami.
Léa, Adrien et leur petit frère Théo se voient dans l’obligation d’aller passer leurs vacances d’été en Provence chez leur grand-père maternel, Paul, qu’ils n’ont encore jamais rencontré. Malgré l’aide de leur grand-mère, l’adaptation sera difficile pour les membres de cette famille qui n’ont, de prime abord, aucune affinité.
In 1852, the mountain village in Provence where Violette lives is brutally deprived of all its men after the repression of the republicans ordered by Napoleon III. Women spend months in total isolation, desperate to see their men again. In this situation, they make an oath in case a man arrives in the village.
Le jeune Marcel Pagnol part en Provence avec toute sa famille pour les vacances d'été. Enfant de la ville, c'est la découverte de la nature, des grands espaces et la fierté d'avoir un père grand chasseur. Des vacances qui marqueront à jamais ses souvenirs d'enfance.
Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for killing her father, in two parts: Manon des sources and Ugolin.
Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. The two brothers have never got on with each other. One is faithful to his religion, the other lives only for the present. Between London, Paris, Saint-Tropez and New York, a series of confrontations and betrayals threatens to drive the family further apart, but out of this confusion will come a great love story, perhaps even two...
When Marie, a widow in Provence with two daughters, locks her bedroom door and goes to sleep, she dreams about Marty, a literary agent in Manhattan who dreams equally vividly about Marie. The women look alike. Marie meets William who begins to court her. Marty meets Aaron, an accountant, becomes his friend and then his lover. Both women tell their lovers about their dream life. William is jealous, Aaron is accepting. Even though they've become lovers, Marie won't fall asleep next to William. Marie goes on holiday with William to Paris, and Marty wakes up with an ashtray from the hotel on her night stand. Are they the same person? What will unlock reality?
In Provence , Father Caillé runs a family pension backed by his daughter-in-law Cora and a maid. The old man persecutes Cora for her assiduity until the day when she, in a particularly violent confrontation, knocks him down before the eyes of Gino, an Italian pensioner of whom she is in love. The two accomplices will try to make up the murder.
The works of Marcel Pagnol are a veritable monument of French cultural heritage. Based on previously unseen archive material, film extracts, novels, plays, interviews and letters, the film pays tribute to the major author and popular filmmaker, who made his life a work and his work a life's project.
After the death of uncle Olivier, his estate, a small chateau in Provence and the small town's only undertaker firm in its cellar, befall equally and jointly to his local stepson André Vidal, who runs the business since Olivier semi-retired ill, and German cousin, business consultant Charlotte. She arrives from Frankfort to sell the estate at the skyrocketing prices for such idyllic hospitality industry sites. André is shocked, determined to preserve the town's social fabric by preserving Olivier's heritage, and disappointed she doesn't even recognize him as childhood best playmate. It turns out the backward taxes are a ticking bomb, which she sneakily intends to ignite, only André's charms and the lavender-scented bucolic way of life appeal ever more even to businesslike Charlotte.